Improvement in center-pieces and covers for cooking-stoves



UNITED STATES PATENT" OFFICE.

MARY L. MELVILLE AND JOHN S. KIDD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CENTER-PIECES AND COVERS FOR COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,570, dated June 30, 1874; application filed May 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN SAMUEL KIDD and Mrs. MARY L. MELVILLE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a stove contrived according toour invention. Fig. 2 is also a plan view, but with some of the covers standing up as when the holes are opened for the pots. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of our improved stove, taken on the line as w of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 3 3 Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the pot-hole covers. Fig. 6 is a detail section, showing the method of hinging the covers.

Similar letters of reference indicate correthe top plate in clusters with one or more straight sides, according to the number .of pots to be clustered together, and thus adjust them so that the whole of the middle portion over the hottest part of the fire will be covered by the pots, having flat sides and standin g close together, and all of the available portion of the heat thereof will be utilized. The

most economical arrangement will consist of four holes, but two or three may be employed. In thiscase we have represented four holes, A, on the front part of the stove, and two, B, on the back part, with narrow parallelsided cross -bars 0 between them, which,

like the cross-bars of the ordinary stoves, will be removable for converting two holes into one for receiving an elongated pot or wash-boiler.

By this arrangement, and with pots of this character, the boiler capacity of a stove of a given size will be much greater than with the old arrangement of pots, so that much smaller stoves will serve in lieu of the old ones. a

We also propose to hinge or joint the covers D to the stove, as shown in the drawing, or in any approved way, so that they may be turned up and rest on the edge by the side of the pot, and thus save the labor of lifting them otf and on the stove. The joints or hinges will be on the straight side, and where ,two or more holes are used, the covers will be jointed to the cross-pieces, so as to swing up between the pots. For making room for them between the pots, the latter will be made so as not to meet close together; but, as the covers will be very thin, only slight spaces will be needed. Small covers for small the latter in the same manner as they are hinged to the stove-plate, as represented at H. This plan of hinging the covers to the stove is applicable to the ordinary round covers by making a portion of the edge straight fora short distance.

The method which we prefer for hinging the covers to the" stove consists of holes E, formed in the plate in the casting of it, and the crooked lugs F, formed on the cover in the casting of it, so arranged that the lugs may be inserted in the holes without fitting, and will hold the cover against escaping by any of the forces applied to it in opening or closing it. The lug on the side of the cover, to which the cover-lifter will be applied for lifting it, will have a lateral projection, G, to catch under the plate and prevent the lifter from raising the lug out of the hole in case it be applied directly at the lug.

The part J of the lugs catch under the plate 7 at L, to prevent the covers from falling over backward. r

We desire to disclaim pivoted or hinged pot-hole covers as forming any part of our invention, being well aware that they are old.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, in a cooking stove or range,

of stove-covers 1) and partitions O, the for mer hinged to the latter, and the latter made detachable, as and for the purpose specified.

MARY L. MELVILLE. JOHN S. KIDD. Witnesses:

WM. J UEHO, ABRAM VAN DOREN. 

